CI/CD Contracts in the North West

CI/CD
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 192 243 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.95% 7.56% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 8.35% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 184 212
10th Percentile £444 £413 £413
25th Percentile £505 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £700 £700
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -5.01% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +20.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +4 154 £600 +9.09% 87
Cheshire -14 21 £510 +2.26% 15
Merseyside +12 6 £475 -9.52% 9
Lancashire -9 6 £625 -10.71% 5
Cumbria -27 1 - -
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.60%) Apache
2 5 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.08%) Confluence
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.04%) nginx
4 2 (1.04%) Traefik
5 1 (0.52%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 97 (50.52%) AWS
2 41 (21.35%) Azure
3 29 (15.10%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (13.02%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.94%) Serverless
6 18 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.81%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.73%) Snowflake
11 10 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.69%) Route 53
13 8 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (4.17%) GCP
13 8 (4.17%) GitHub
14 6 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.88%) Firewall
1 42 (21.88%) VPN
2 7 (3.65%) DSL
3 6 (3.13%) Network Security
4 5 (2.60%) FTP
5 4 (2.08%) DNS
6 2 (1.04%) DMZ
6 2 (1.04%) Intranet
6 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.42%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.65%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.60%) Big Data
5 5 (2.60%) MySQL
5 5 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.56%) Redis
8 2 (1.04%) Power BI
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Azkaban
9 1 (0.52%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 45 (23.44%) GitLab
2 35 (18.23%) Git
3 24 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 19 (9.90%) JIRA
5 8 (4.17%) webpack
6 6 (3.13%) Mockito
6 6 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.60%) JUnit
8 4 (2.08%) Maven
8 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.56%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.56%) Mocha
9 3 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.56%) Selenium
10 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.04%) GoCD
10 2 (1.04%) Gradle
10 2 (1.04%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 28 (14.58%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.94%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.73%) Finance
4 10 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.13%) Legal
6 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.08%) Retail
8 3 (1.56%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (24.48%) Architect
2 40 (20.83%) Developer
3 39 (20.31%) Technical Architect
4 38 (19.79%) Lead
5 37 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (16.67%) Technical Leader
7 28 (14.58%) Lead Architect
7 28 (14.58%) Senior
8 21 (10.94%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (8.33%) Java Developer
10 14 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (6.25%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (4.17%) Data Engineer
14 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 8 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (39.06%) Node.js
2 19 (9.90%) RESTful
3 18 (9.38%) React
4 16 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 14 (7.29%) REST
6 13 (6.77%) Spring
7 12 (6.25%) Redux
8 8 (4.17%) Express.js
8 8 (4.17%) Hibernate
8 8 (4.17%) JPA
8 8 (4.17%) Spring Security
8 8 (4.17%) XML
9 7 (3.65%) .NET
10 5 (2.60%) Jest
10 5 (2.60%) JSON
10 5 (2.60%) Kafka
10 5 (2.60%) React Native
11 3 (1.56%) Android Jetpack
11 3 (1.56%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.56%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 19 (9.90%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.21%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.21%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.04%) Clustering
7 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.04%) PKI
8 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (28.65%) Windows
2 46 (23.96%) Android
3 42 (21.88%) Apple iOS
3 42 (21.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.81%) Linux
5 9 (4.69%) Unix
6 4 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (55.73%) DevOps
2 93 (48.44%) Agile
3 51 (26.56%) Design Patterns
4 44 (22.92%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.88%) Microservices
5 42 (21.88%) Risk Management
5 42 (21.88%) Security Architecture
5 42 (21.88%) Zero Trust
6 40 (20.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 40 (20.83%) Mobile Device Management
6 40 (20.83%) Threat Intelligence
7 36 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 25 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (11.98%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
11 17 (8.85%) Front End Development
11 17 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (8.33%) Scrum
13 15 (7.81%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.83%) Python
2 30 (15.63%) Java
3 24 (12.50%) SQL
4 20 (10.42%) Bash
5 19 (9.90%) C#
6 16 (8.33%) Go
7 15 (7.81%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.77%) Ruby
9 10 (5.21%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.56%) C++
10 3 (1.56%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
11 2 (1.04%) Delphi
11 2 (1.04%) VBScript
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.52%) R
12 1 (0.52%) X++
Qualifications
1 68 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 61 (31.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.69%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) MCSE
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) QA
2 4 (2.08%) SLA
3 3 (1.56%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (18.23%) Docker
2 4 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (32.29%) Terraform
2 47 (24.48%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.98%) Ansible
4 9 (4.69%) Puppet
5 8 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.65%) CFEngine
6 7 (3.65%) PowerBroker
7 6 (3.13%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.08%) Grafana
9 2 (1.04%) Consul
9 2 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.04%) Graphite
9 2 (1.04%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.04%) Istio
9 2 (1.04%) linkerd
9 2 (1.04%) Packer
9 2 (1.04%) Podman
9 2 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (5.21%) Atlassian
1 10 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.17%) Splunk
3 7 (3.65%) Google
4 5 (2.60%) Apple
4 5 (2.60%) Informatica
4 5 (2.60%) Talend
5 4 (2.08%) VMware
6 3 (1.56%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle
7 2 (1.04%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.52%) Confluent
8 1 (0.52%) Databricks
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic